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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:02 am

How about this?:

57 minutes ago

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/41408.html


and this:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs. ... 002/NEWS01


and this:

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LNG projects help to boost Bechtel 2005 revenues


By Leonard Anderson

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (Reuters) - Bechtel Corp., the big privately held engineering and construction company, on Tuesday reported gains in revenue and new work orders in 2005, helped by the expansion of liquefied natural gas projects around the world.

Revenue last year rose by 4 percent to $18.1 billion and the value of new bookings gained by 17.8 percent to $18.5 billion, Bechtel said in its annual business review. The company does not report earnings.

Bechtel's oil, gas and chemicals unit and government services division were the company's most active business sectors in 2005.

The company sees more "robust" activity for the oil-gas-chemicals sector in 2006 in the Middle East and India along with LNG work, Jude Laspa, deputy chief operating officer, said in an interview.

Bechtel has received two natural gas plant and pipeline projects in Abu Dhabi with a combined value of $2.75 billion and it also is building a gas processing plant for Saudi Aramco. Bechtel also will double the capacity of the Jamnagar oil refinery it built in India several years ago.

In its LNG work in 2005, Bechtel worked on new plants in Australia and Equatorial Guinea, expanded a plant in Trinidad, and completed an LNG job in Egypt. It is also developing an LNG terminal in Louisiana.

Bechtel's government services work last year included projects in Iraq to build water and electricity systems under $2.8 billion of contracts from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Laspa said Bechtel's work in Iraq is expected to wind up late this year or early in 2007.


Bechtel also was among big U.S. construction companies getting government contracts last year to rebuild areas in the Gulf Coast devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

It supplied a total 36,000 trailers to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house more than 100,000 people in Mississippi and is now providing maintenance services, Laspa said.

Laspa said Bechtel's activity in China this year will focus on acquiring more steel and other building materials to supply Bechtel projects elsewhere in the world, including an aluminum smelter in Iceland and a coal-fired power plant in Wisconsin.

It also will build up its engineering support center in Shanghai and take on more work in China for multinational customers, like a project it oversaw to build a facility outside Shanghai for Plantronics Inc. (PLT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), a maker of portable headsets.

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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:11 am

"One day I look foward to people not being upset with me but to whom it is they should be mad at."


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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:25 am

And please let's not forget Haliburton:


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( Hey, are'nt they still in Iraq sucking up some oil?)



Halliburton Subsidiary Taps Contract For Repairs
By Lolita C. Baldor
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Monday, September 5, 2005; A20



An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.

Jan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, said yesterday that KBR would receive $12 million for work at the Naval Air Station at Pascagoula, Miss., the Naval Station at Gulfport, Miss., and Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. KBR will receive $4.6 million for work at two smaller Navy facilities in New Orleans and others in the South.

The company has provided similar work after major disasters in the United States and abroad for more than 15 years, including in Florida after Hurricane Andrew.

KBR has been at the center of scrutiny for receiving a five-year, no-bid contract to restore Iraqi oil fields shortly before the war began in 2003. Halliburton has reported being paid $10.7 billion for Iraq-related government work during 2003 and 2004. The company reported its pretax profits from that work as $163 million. Pentagon auditors have questioned tens of millions of dollars of Halliburton charges for its operations there.

Last month three congressional Democrats asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to investigate the demotion of a senior civilian Army official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, who publicly criticized the awarding of that contract.

Vice President Cheney headed Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, and Democrats have questioned whether the firm received favorable treatment because of his connection.




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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:45 am

Just a change to the political atmousphere:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/story/0,,1737445,00.html


Warning to chatroom users after libel award for man labelled a Nazi


Thursday March 23, 2006

High court orders lecturer to pay ₤10,000 damages Lawyers say case confirms existing law applies on net
Owen Gibson, media correspondent

A political argument that erupted in a remote corner of cyberspace and descended into vicious name-calling could lead to a spate of libel actions by contributors to internet message boards, the man at the centre of the case claimed yesterday.

The dark side of the blogosphere was revealed by a libel action brought by Michael Keith-Smith, a former Conservative party member who stood for Ukip in Portsmouth North at the last election. He said he was moved to sue after a woman with whom he was debating the merits of military action in Iraq began a campaign of name-calling that started by describing him as "lard brain" and culminated in falsely labelling him a "Nazi", a "racist bigot" and a "nonce".

Tracy Williams, a college lecturer from Oldham, was ordered by a high court judge to pay £10,000 in damages, as well as Mr Keith-Smith's £7,200 costs, and told never to repeat the allegations.

The case is one of the first of its kind between two private individuals to go to court and, said lawyers, highlighted issues that would become more prominent as internet usage continued to grow and blogging, social networking and community sites became yet more popular.

Mr Keith-Smith told the Guardian that he took action after a debate about the Iraq war in 2003 on a Yahoo! message board with about 100 members turned ugly. "She was very pro-Bush. Initially, she called me lard brain and I wasn't particularly concerned about that. Then she called me a Nazi," he said.

He has also taken action against a second poster, he said, with whom he claimed to have settled for a sum "in the region of £30,000".

"They started saying I was on a sex offenders' list and that people shouldn't let me near their children," said Mr Keith-Smith, who is also chairman of the Conservative Democratic Alliance, which bills itself as "the leading voice of the radical Tory right".

He resolved to take legal action after the pair accused his wife of being a prostitute. But once his solicitors petitioned the court to find out the identity of Ms Williams, who contributed to the forum under a pseudonym, the abuse got worse.

"It's a matter of principle. I had no proof that anyone who read this took it seriously. I just didn't see why she should be allowed to get away with it," he said.

Legal experts said the case should be taken as a warning to the millions of people in the UK debating contentious issues on message boards, in chatrooms and on their own blogs that the laws of libel applied just as they would if the comments were published in a leaflet or newsletter.

But despite claims from some that Judge Alistair MacDuff's high court decision would hamper freedom of speech, most said the case merely provided confirmation of the existing law.

"You can't say this is something that should just be allowed to carry on. I don't think it is going to open any floodgates; it's a quite sensible application of the law," said Caroline Keane, a partner at media law firm Wiggin LLP.

But Mark Stephens, head of media law at Finer Stephens Innocent, said the case should trigger a wider debate about whether the libel law was best suited to deal with such cases. If a chatroom was self-moderating and had a limited circulation, he questioned whether such cases should ever reach court.

Most such cases never reach court because most complaints tend to be to an ISP or site owner, which would take down the defamatory content as soon as it was notified and the person making the libellous allegations would back down.

FAQ: Internet libel

Should internet service providers be worried about libel?

The issue of liability was a grey area for ISPs, but a workable system has developed through European and UK law whereby ISPs are not generally considered liable as long as they act to take down potentially libellous material when notified.

Does this affect freedom of speech?

Some have argued that in ISPs' haste to take down material complained about, they are in effect curtailing freedom of speech.

Why haven't more of these cases come to court?

Lawyers say cases between individuals have tended to be settled before reaching court.

What about site owners?

Uncertainty remains over whether a site owner such as the BBC would be liable, particularly if it claimed to moderate comments before they were added to a website



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Well shit! looks like I coulda sued after all huh?


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Post by Sean » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:03 am

I don't know if anyone else noticed this but now the US group Minutemen will be watching the Evil Kanadian Empire border to try to stop our illegal immigrants and terrorists from getting in. Damn, I was hoping to sneak across this weekend to do some shopping.

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Post by DVD Burner » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:05 am

Sean wrote:I don't know if anyone else noticed this but now the US group Minutemen will be watching the Evil Kanadian Empire border to try to stop our illegal immigrants and terrorists from getting in. Damn, I was hoping to sneak across this weekend to do some shopping.


BWWWAAAAAAA ha ha ha ha ha!

that's a good one.



Ummm, are you serious?


BWWWWAAAAAAAA ha ha ha ha ha.

They are a bunch of nut cases anyway.
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Post by Sean » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:07 am

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006 ... 11-cp.html

There it is. We are now just starting to talk about giving half our border gaurds pistols and these guys have what appears to be some anti-tank stuff.

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Post by Rockdad » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:13 am

Is that the right link? I do not see the anti tank stuff but i will read it again in the morning ?
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Post by Sean » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:15 am

The link works for me but here is the article if it dosen't work for you.

Minutemen to patrol Canada-U.S. border

By CELESTE MACKENZIE




(CP) - An American civilian group will soon be on the lookout again for illegal migrants entering the United States from Canada along stretches of the border.

Starting April 1, volunteers with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, angered with the ongoing entry of illegal migrants to the United States, will be watching from New York to New Hampshire at locations yet to be disclosed. Washington state volunteers are also to be on guard.

"There's no real border security, and we feel there's a good chance terrorists could get in," said Peter Lanteri, a Long Island resident and head of the initiative in New York state.

"What we're doing is a neighbourhood watch on our own border. We are another set of eyes, just as the government asked Americans to be after 9-11."

Lanteri expects 36 volunteers to take part in New York state - most of them former military and law-enforcement officers concerned about both economic migrants, criminals and potential terrorists. The group claims 6,500 volunteers throughout the United States.

Russ Delacy, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol, the mobile uniformed law-enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security, says the government neither supports nor discourages Minuteman work.

"We answer their calls just as we would anyone else's. As long as they aren't breaking any laws, we treat them like any other citizen," Delacy said from his office in Stanton, Vt.

DeLacy said that during fiscal 2005, the Border Patrol apprehended 856 illegal aliens who failed to enter at official crossings along a 420-kilometre stretch of the border between the Thousand Islands and New Hampshire.

In October, New York Minuteman volunteers were on guard in Washington state, Vermont and, for two nights, near Massena, N.Y., but had no sightings.

This year, the observation is planned to last a week. Month-long patrols of the southern U.S. border along several states are also to start Saturday. The group patrolled the Arizona border for a month last year.

The Arizona-based organization, which formed in 2004, gets its name from anti-British militia during the American Revolution.

Lanteri stressed that upon sighting suspected illegal migrants, Minuteman volunteers notify the Border Patrol and make no physical contact, except if emergency assistance is needed. He says Minuteman vehicle licence plate numbers and copies of weapons permits are filed with Border Patrol agents, as are observation locations.

Immigrants and immigrant support groups have called the organization racist vigilantes and have protested the patrols.

"We aren't anti-immigration. We are anti-illegal migration," Lanteri said.

"Where I live, there are six adults living in houses. There's more and more garbage. The hospital is losing money. We are trying to help stem the tide, but what we really need is the National Guard along the southern border and at key spots along the northern one."

In 2004, the Border Patrol arrested over one million people, 90 per cent of them along the Mexican border.

According to a report this month from the Pew Hispanic Center, a Washington research organization, there are more than 11 million undocumented foreigners in the United States, of which six million are Mexicans. Canadians and Europeans make up six per cent.

The Border Patrol website notes that between Sept. 11, 2001, and 2004, it had increased its number of agents from 350 along the Canadian border to 1,100.

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Post by DVD Burner » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:27 am

The link works, just a little bit slow.


These seem to be the same type of nuts as the idiot at the Seattle party.
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Post by DVD Burner » Sat Apr 01, 2006 7:32 am

So like Uuuummmmm,


Condi is supposed to have a Doctorate in whatever and she makes this kinda statement cross seas (SHE IS KIDDING RIGHT? AFTER ALL IT IS APRIL FOOLS DAY.) I told you she was an idiot no matter what kinda degree she's got.:





Rice accepts "thousands" of Iraq errors


Friday, 31 Mar 2006 21:09



US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has admitted that US armed forces have made "thousands" of "tactical errors" since coalition forces invaded Iraq in April 2003.

Speaking to reporters in Blackburn on her visit to the UK, Ms Rice justified her concession by distinguishing between flawed military decisions and the wider strategic choices made by President Bush's administration.

She referred to her speech which re-stated US foreign policy aims, outlining her country's goal to spread freedom and justice, maintain international law and commit to a close relationship between Britain and the US.

"I know we've made tactical errors - thousands of them, I'm sure," Ms Rice said in a question and answer session with journalists after making her foreign policy speech.

"But I believe strongly that it was the right strategic decision, that Saddam had been a threat to the international community long enough."

Ms Rice responded to growing criticism of the detention of around 500 terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay by claiming that the US has "no desire to be the world's jailer", claiming that she wants "the terrorists that we capture to stand trial".

"We do not tolerate either at home or abroad engagements in acts of torture," she added.

Her speech also touched on the US' nuclear stand-off with Iran, saying that although military action was not "on the agenda", President Bush "never takes any option off the table".

40 people died following a suicide bomb attack on a US base near the northern Iraqi town of Talafal earlier today, a town which President Bush recently hailed as an example of the US military's successful anti-insurgency tactics.
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Post by Sean » Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:30 am

I wonder what she means by "tactical"......

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Post by Kundalini » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:31 pm

Would anyone agree that most of evils perpetuated on the civilized world today and in the past, stem from a small group of individuals intent on controlling the world? And, besides bribery and murder, these individuals use as their main tool of control, privately owned centralized banking systems? And, are we not now being set up by enormous debt and an economic contraction for more evil and to further their control? And, what is the hope and fear; the future?

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Post by DVD Burner » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:50 pm

They are called Illuminati.
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Post by SED » Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:55 pm

I'm sure your typical self-pitying Jew hater would readily agree with that statement.
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Post by DVD Burner » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:05 pm

I'm sure that since SED has me on his "Ignore" list, he must be talking about Kundalini's post.

Either way SED's post makes no sense as usual.
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Post by Kinetic IV » Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:49 pm

SED wrote:I'm sure your typical self-pitying Jew hater would readily agree with that statement.
SED, are you painting with the ultrawide stereotype brush again?

As for the content of Kundalini's post if you think about it why is Wal-Mart so keen on getting that corporate bank set up in Utah? Is it really about saving money on credit card transactions or is it to become a player in the interconnected financial system...meaning they would be able to catch the attention of various ears inside the Illuminati as needed?
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Post by Kundalini » Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:19 pm

It is amazing to me how the vast majority of the American people filter their reality and simply refuse to believe the evidence that the attacks on 9/11, had been staged and controlled by parties working for the United States' government itself. Even as our government continues to sell us fear, and sell us out, the majority of the American people continue to believe our government's deceptions. Today, the American people imagine themselves to be brave and the heroic saviors of Iraq. But, my reality is while the majority of Americans imagine themselves to have courage, they avoid the one situation which requires real courage; to stand up to their own government. Now, our government has secured extraordinary powers, powers specifically designed to keep us from standing up against our government. I know this post is "preaching to the choir" on this thread, but I am troubled.

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Post by DVD Burner » Sun Apr 02, 2006 10:41 pm

Kundalini,


Uuummmmm, you can read this entire thread and see I have been saying the same thing for years. I’ve even posted tons of facts from reputable sites. (so much so that the admins thought it wise to delete some of my posts.)
There is not very much you can do with people that prefer to live in denial.
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Post by lurker » Mon Apr 03, 2006 12:24 pm

For years I worried about the state of our mental-health institutions. But my fears have been allayed. From this...
It is amazing to me how the vast majority of the American people filter their reality and simply refuse to believe the evidence that the attacks on 9/11, had been staged and controlled by parties working for the United States' government itself. Even as our government continues to sell us fear, and sell us out, the majority of the American people continue to believe our government's deceptions. Today, the American people imagine themselves to be brave and the heroic saviors of Iraq. But, my reality is while the majority of Americans imagine themselves to have courage, they avoid the one situation which requires real courage; to stand up to their own government. Now, our government has secured extraordinary powers, powers specifically designed to keep us from standing up against our government. I know this post is "preaching to the choir" on this thread, but I am troubled.
...we can see that not only are patients being taught useful keyboarding skills, but that they are being given help with big words.

Sadly, it is the paranoids who seem to spend the most time availing themselves of this boon.

Imagine the level of paranoia required to 'forget' that our government changes form as the parties in power alternate--or even how the parties themselves change over time.

Indeed, the notion that some nebulous conspiratorial government is 'out to get us' seems the dominant form of these happy-go-lucky patients fantasies. Often they believe that these powerful conspiracies, so deft and strong as to carry out so many horrific plots in utter secrecy, are nonetheless so inept that they are easily discovered by asylum dwellers. All-powerful and ludicrously exposure-prone, these conspiracies are regularly denounced by people who firmly believe that they are privy to some 'secret' information that they must dissipate to the entire world.

And they do, on the internet, on the radio, in leftwing newsweeklies. And never do they wonder at the fact that these all-powerful conspiracies never seem to stop them.

While these poor people are trapped in their delusional states, we can all take heart that they're at least getting some kind of training, and that maybe, one day, the Illuminati will find some use for them.

Perhaps as stenographers at the surely-upcoming treason trials?
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Post by Lassen Forge » Mon Apr 03, 2006 1:25 pm

Of course, the conspiracy theorists can also argue that the poster coming on a Lurker is actually a government agent keeping the facts covered up by a particularly pecular method employed most frequently by the government of the US when people start getting a little too close to the truth.

Dissuade the post, of that doesn't work, disuade the poster, then ignore it and it will go away.

Russia was also good doing that. So is China. So is north Korea, and a lot of the islamic states.

Maybe I'm just old enough to remember when the US stood for something, and how it would *never* be like Russia or China or Nazi Germany or all the others we have battled valiantly against.

That's it. I'm too old. Just ignore the ancient crone nutbag, what does *she* know???

Except someday you will be as old as me, and those who then are your age now will think of YOUR thoughts much as you do mine. Age, the great equalizer...

So yeah, I must be a mental patient then, too. Right? So was Jefferson...

So... you ready to spill your guts and die so we can be hated in Iraq, and worldwide? Or is your life maybe worth something more? Aren't our kids lives also worth something more? Or is their blood a sacrifice on the altar of your god... and if so, which god do you worship, anyway???

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Post by SED » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:11 pm

I blame Canada.
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Post by lurker » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:34 pm

Of course, the conspiracy theorists can also argue that the poster coming on a Lurker is actually a government agent keeping the facts covered up by a particularly pecular method employed most frequently by the government of the US when people start getting a little too close to the truth.
Nah, I'd get paid better if I was a government agent.
Dissuade the post, of that doesn't work, disuade the poster, then ignore it and it will go away.
But it doesn't work. Doesn't work here, didn't work for Russia, isn't working for China--or North Korea-- of course, they kill their people when they get 'too close to the truth'--but, you know what? When you've got truth, eventually the killing is for naught. The USSR's gone--and even though Putin's trying to put the leash back on the Russian people, it's not going to work.

But you've got to have reality backing you up. The people of the USSR could see that there was something immensely better.

The conspiracy theorists don't have a whole lot of truth--that's why they get laughed at more than anything else.
Maybe I'm just old enough to remember when the US stood for something, and how it would *never* be like Russia or China or Nazi Germany or all the others we have battled valiantly against.
Darlin', if you think the US is acting like the USSR or Nazi Germany, then you aren't too old, you're too young. We've got a long sad way to go before we're anywhere near that--and our government would have to change radically and horribly.

Now, I think we're moving in a direction that could take us there, but I'm willing to bet that the direction I'm talking about is one that you just might think would save us--despite the fact that you use Russia and China as expletives.

Now, I don't know how old you are, and I'm not saying how old I am(it'd mess with my CIA generated cover story), but I want people to be able to walk up to me on the streets of BRC when I'm a doddering old fool and gape at my get-up(and I pray that I'll still have the sense not to donald about--either sans pants or sans hair). Muslim fanatics, left-wing fanatics and christian fanatics are proven to frown on things like Burning Man, so I'm gonna do what I can to keep them away from anything like power(I didn't include 'rightwing fanatics' in there because I've got strange ideas about what actually constitutes 'right-wing', and by my definition, they might not be able to BE fanatics). You'll oppose who you oppose, and we'll see where that gets us. With luck, we'll both be able to dodder around.
So yeah, I must be a mental patient then, too. Right?
Well, if you think that these huge, secret, evil conspiracies do all these terrible things, but can't seem to keep from letting most of the leftish conspiracy theorists in te country in on them--while still maintaining absolute control--without suppressing the conspiracy theorists access to ways to 'spread the truth'--then yes, you are crazy enough to warrant institutionalisation.

Try Occam's bikini wax, you'll feel a lot better. I did.
So was Jefferson...
Y'know, I don't recall Thomas Jefforson insisting that the US was being attacked by secret conspiracies in it's own government, conspiracies that....do I have to say this whole thing again? No? Thanks. You get the picture.

And why is it that Jefferson is praised for his positions by people on one hand, and excoriated for being a slaveholder(and screwer) on the other?
So... you ready to spill your guts and die so we can be hated in Iraq, and worldwide? Or is your life maybe worth something more? Aren't our kids lives also worth something more? Or is their blood a sacrifice on the altar of your god... and if so, which god do you worship, anyway???
I tried to enlist for the first Gulf War. They didn't like my vision. My left eye wiggles a bit. Apparently that's not good when you're trying to shoot someone. Didn't get in, but I was--and am, more than willing to kill or die to defend the things I hold dear. If that means that people hate me, or this country, well that's too bad. But freedom isn't a popularity contest. It's a jewel that requires protection--because there are too many people out there ready to take it away, or give it away or deny that it exists.

And I don't think we're as hated as a lot of people would have us think.

We might have a foreign policy that leaves something to be desired in the eyes of some people, but we've got a culture that a whole lot of people want--despite any pseudo-intellectual protestations to the contrary.

How many American films shine at Cannes? How many American designers set styles? Europe may not like it, but we are the standard against which things are measured--if it makes it big in the US, it's big. We may provide soldiers with guns, but we also provide the music that rails against them--and the t-shirts and slogans assured to cut the neo-cons to the quick.

Our kids lives are worth protecting this mad thing that we're a part of--this weird hated beloved beast that is the US. My kids would agree, yours...? who knows? I would not presume to speak for them--but I would gladly send them to their deaths, even as I would go to mine, to ensure that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people not perish from this earth.

We've got something great here, and I want it to comtinue, even if my genes have to be erased from the world to see that it does.

What god do I worship? I don't worship.

But I know and smile on all the gods, and they smile on me.
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Post by EvilDustBooger » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:51 pm


GOD ?


oh my god........



Religion


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Politics



????????




All in 1 thread ???


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Post by Lassen Forge » Mon Apr 03, 2006 4:12 pm

The Church Police?? >grins< Wonder if he wants to join our theme camp?

I was too old to volunteer for service (again) in Desert Storm, but not too old to volunteer to go over there and put out fires.

The country kept it's citizenry in the dark with propoganda fed by the government to their "free" press and slowly emasculated their rights and freedoms from said citizenry while telling them to "live as we did before" and while fighting a war on foreign territory to gain land and resources (oil), using fabricated evidence for most of their jutification. Oh, and use terms directly contradictory to describe actions or laws?

Why was one former president impeached about lying about sex, another forced to resign over lying about something his staffers did, and yet a non-former president not impeached for failing his sworn duty to defend (not emasculate) the constitution and deliberately deceiving the entire american people, the congress, and most other foreign countries???

And... how, pray tell, is it honoring someone by keeping them in a combat situation until they are permanently maimed or disfigured or killed? (You're prolly too young to remember the viet vets were in 365 and out, unless they re-upped voluntarily - VOLUNTARILY being the other operative word here...)

What about all the other (worse) nutcase evil fuck dictators we didn't go after? Why are we now laughed at by not just our enemies, but our allies as well??

What about the DaVinci code? >giggles< There really *are* secrets buried in Italy, BTW... some of which may or may not be relevant. Even involving religion. Hmmmm...

Time to go... sorry. It's been fun. >grins<

Have nice evening...
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Post by Isotopia » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:11 pm

Either way SED's post makes no sense as usual.
As if any of the THOUSANDS of posts you've shit out here over the last 2-3 years do?

Puh-lease.
Uuummmmm, you can read this entire thread and see I have been saying the same thing for years.
As in nothing.

Anything beyond the painfully banal five word post you've banged out here has, for the most part, been nothing more than a cut-and-paste lifted from some other author that's grabbed your attention.

Hell, one need only check this thread for what 'you' have to say to get the point.

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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:39 pm

Isotopia wrote:
Either way SED's post makes no sense as usual.
As if any of the THOUSANDS of posts you've shit out here over the last 2-3 years do?

Puh-lease.

DVD wrote:You have an entire thread here to point out what I have posted in THIS THREAD that has not to have been true. Nice to see you involved in the politics thread Badger.
Uuummmmm, you can read this entire thread and see I have been saying the same thing for years.
As in nothing.

Anything beyond the painfully banal five word post you've banged out here has, for the most part, been nothing more than a cut-and-paste lifted from some other author that's grabbed your attention.

Hell, one need only check this thread for what 'you' have to say to get the point.


DVD wrote:I'll say it again Badger: You have an entire thread here to point out what I have posted in THIS THREAD that has not to have been true.


Be my guest!


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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:42 pm

This should be good.........excuse me......excellent.




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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Apr 03, 2006 8:49 pm

Just so you and everyone knows, this is just sparring for me.


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Post by DVD Burner » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:04 pm

Oh and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take as much time as you need for every post you need to post.

That goes for everyone.



(sorry about the extra post. I'm in the middle of dinner.)


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